Gadgetory

hi I'm Scott Stein and mid-2014 it looks like everybody's trying to put the future on your wrist there are tons of smartwatches and tons of upcoming smartwatches and the motorola moto 360 is one of the ones that was supposed to be a shining star is a round watch running Google's Android wear software it's futuristic looking it looks like it's going to bring the world on your wrist in a way that hadn't been done before well after having used it for a while the verdict is that it's not really all that much different from other Android wear watches have you used an Android wear watch well there are a couple already out there there are a lot more coming and it runs Google's own operating system for wearables you have to have an Android 4.3 watcher later to run it and what it does is you can talk to it you can get notifications on it it will also work with compatible apps just like the Samsung gear live or the LG G watch and others to come the difference here is that Motorola is the first round one there are going to be other round smartwatches but this one has a very elegant design Motorola took great care to put a leather band on here there's also going to be a stainless steel one coming soon and the steel face feels very clean and minimal but you know even the gorilla glass screen shows that the LCD watch face underneath and the screen in general is a little less vivid than maybe you were expecting there's also a black bar underneath because of a light sensor so it's not even fully round and the battery life well it's about as good as the battery life on other Android wear watches which is about two days at best so you're dealing with something that's not super long battery life although it does come with a very neat inductive charging system so you can pop this moto 360 right into your bedside cradle and boom it becomes a bedside clock that's great but keep in mind if you're going to put that into a bag or you want to put it into an airline seat pocket that's not really going to stick on my fallout so the Moto 360 is the best looking Android wear watch but it's no different than other ones it can't make phone calls it's not fully interactive with all of its notifications and it can get kind of confusing with all the weird ones that pop up I would have wanted this to be even better this is the best of the bunch after only three but the Moto 360 is definitely grounded from that high flying future standpoint that we hoped for in the past my favorite SmartWatch is the pebble steel it's nice-looking it works with iOS and Android and it looks good in broad daylight has a long battery life and notifications are easy to read it doesn't have a touchscreen it's not all that exciting underneath but it works now the Moto 360 has a touch screen you can talk to it it has a heart rate monitor but it's hard to tell what you're really judging other than heart rate and the battery life is shorter so maybe I like the design but doesn't feel as all day and everyday useful of something like this which would you pick hmmm maybe you like the design here I still prefer this a bit i'm scott stein at cnet with a look at moto 360 on my wrist